This is the home of the Social Media in the NREN Community space.
This space was created by TF-CPR, but is open to all TERENA Wiki users for comment and contribution.
Plan for now:
Let's start discussing! The TERENA NREN community - not just PR people - have something to say about social media. Goto discussion area: "Do user communities in education and research really want to engage with NRENs using social media? If not, should we try anyway? How?!?!"
- Collect useful theoretical studies that we can all benefit from (18. 3. 2011)
- Collect NREN social media "use cases" (18. 3. 2011) -
- Joint video conference to review findings and decide on next steps, if any (21-25. 3. 2011)
- Create general Social media strategy for NREN - facilitated by VC discussion if necessary
- Create strategy for each social media - FB, Twitter, Linkedin, Youtube ... - facilitated by VC discussion if necessary
- Start working, share what works and what doesn't work as we progress
2. Social Media in theory
General
- How to Introduce Social Media to Your Business (when/how to and when not to expand your promotion to Social Media - 3min reading, MUST)
- How To Develop a Business-Aligned Social Media & Social Networking Strategy (General theoretical approach - useful for convincing top management - 15min reading, optional)
- Understanding the Experience of Social Network Sites (Helps understand WHY people use social networks - good reading for Social media haters - 8min reading, optinal)
- 9 Ways to Make Your Facebook Pages Red Hot (profit business related, but some aspect suitable for NRENs - 3 min reading, optional)
3. NREN Social Media "Use Cases"
CARNET (how do you differentiate from web)
- Offical FB page (520 followers)
- School portal on FB (311 followers)
- Users conference on FB (187 followers)
- Wiki (eng, cro)
NORDUNET
- Offical FB page (23 followers)
- Offical Twitter page (32 followers)
- Nordunet conference (24 followers)
SUNET
- Get satisfactory (custom social like app)
ARNES
- Unofficial FB page (73 folowers)
- Offical si.cert FB page (217 followers)
- Offical registry.si FB page (139 followers)
TERENA
Approaches we like most
- Sports Tracker - community around Nokia application from Finland (13500 folowers, couple of hundreds active)
- Pepsi -community around soft dring (3MIO followers)
4. General social media strategy for NREN
Sort/group in future
- Post updates on consistent basis
How (check Denis McDonald for details)
- Describe organisational goals (3-5) e.g. improve communications, help, increase the number of ...
- Describe social media initiatives: e.g. create Facebook page, establish blog, create a network of experts ... For each don't forget to define:
- Determine cost (HR, €)
- Benefits
- Priority
- Impacted Groups
- Schedule
- Relationship to existing processes
- Anticipated Acceptance
- If possible: convert internal users from competing platforms, define ownership and responsibilities, identify hidden opposition inside organisation
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